Chapter 929: Decisive Battle in Valencia (5)
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Nesta's clearance was so powerful that it flew straight over the halfway line of the pitch and into Valencia's half!
Seeing the ball flying towards his own half, Farinos was glad that he didn't press the attack with the big team, and ran towards the spot where the ball landed, ready to intercept Nesta's clearance ball, and then reorganize a wave of attacks with Gerard and Mendieta. However, just before the Spanish defender was about to get the ball, a purple figure suddenly appeared in front of him and took the first step to intercept the ball!
It's Andrey Shevchenko! The new Serie A Golden Boot caught up with Farinos and grabbed Nesta's clearance!
"Oops!" Realizing that the ball had already been preempted by Shevchenko, Farinos subconsciously stretched out his arm, wanting to disrupt Fiorentina's counterattack with a tactical foul before the opponent could accelerate away from him.
However, Farinos clearly underestimated Shevchenko's speed, and his outstretched palm grabbed the air, and the effect of inertia made the Spaniard almost fall directly on the pitch, making the Fiorentina fans in the stands laugh and bend over.
In Valencia's midfield system, Farinos plays an important role. Especially when Mendieta has more offensive tasks, Keeli Gonzalez is limited by his position on the field and cannot provide more help to the middle, and when Gerard is good at organization but weak in confrontation, Farinos, who has the strongest running ability and is not afraid of physical confrontation, provides the team with the help on the defensive end is naturally incomparable to the other three!
It is precisely for this reason that after the defense of Farinos was successfully broken through by Shevchenko, it also meant that Valencia's midfield defense was torn to pieces by Ukrainian nuclear warheads in an instant!
Shevchenko immediately drove forward with the ball, first deflecting a clever smash to deflice Pellegrino's block, and then using his exceptional speed to leave the Argentine centre-back behind!
Seeing Shevchenko break through the defense of Farinos and Pellegrino in a row, Angeloma immediately posted to his teammates to fill in the position. Although the Frenchman was already 35 years old at this time, he firmly occupied the position of Valencia's main right-back with his excellent play at both offensive and defensive ends!
I saw Angloma following Shevchenko closely, although his speed could not be compared with the Ukrainian nuclear warhead, but he was extremely experienced in the game, and he was very clever not to compete with Sheva, but relied on his rich defensive experience, and whenever the latter wanted to speed up to get rid of himself, he made some hidden small moves, disrupting Sheva's rhythm with the ball, thus forcing the opponent to slow down and submit to his control.
Even if they are not as good as those young players in terms of physical function, they can still make up for this disadvantage in other ways, and this is the power of the evergreen Angeloma in football!
At the same time, Shevchenko, who was so obsessed with Angloma's small actions, finally came up with a way to deal with the latter's endless harassment. I saw that the Ukrainian suddenly made an accelerated emergency stop under the pressure of Angeloma, and at the same time completed the turn with the help of his excellent body flexibility. Although Angeloma made the same move, due to the decline in his physical function and his passive position as the defender, the French veteran's movements were a beat slower, and the action of the emergency stop and turn was not as smooth and fast as Shevchenko, so he naturally rushed over his head and was thrown away by a faster Ukrainian nuclear warhead!
Shevchenko, who had finally gotten rid of Angeloma's entanglement, naturally couldn't miss this opportunity, and immediately passed the ball down this gap to Vieri's feet!
With his back to the goal, Vieri used his body to hold Djukic, who was trying to steal behind him, and got Shevchenko's pass, and then crossed his shoulders while his ass arched back!
Caught off guard, Djukic was almost overwhelmed by Vieri's power-stream style of play, after all, the 34-year-old Yugoslav is no longer young, and he relies more on his own experience and anticipation to defend in the game, rather than against Vieri's outrageous perverts of strong power.
You must know that even Stam, who is taller and heavier than Vieri, has suffered a lot when defending the former in team training matches, not to mention Djukic, who is only 1.77 meters tall and weighs only 75 kilograms.
So it's no surprise that Djukic didn't last long before being defeated by Vieri's onslaught. After all, in today's international football, it's rare to be able to stand up to Vieri's defenders head-on in one-on-one. And after squeezing away Djukic, Vieri, who turned around, did not hesitate at all, and directly hit a powerful left-footed volley on the line of the big penalty area!
However, Djukic, who was squeezed out of the defensive position, was not ineffective, and although he could not prevent Vieri from turning and finishing the goal, he managed to interfere with Vieri's movements, so that the latter did not fully exert his power when shooting. As a result, Vieri's shot was saved by Canizares, who was in front of goal, and the Spaniard international pressed the ball firmly on the turf just off the goal line with both hands!
Although Fiorentina's counterattack failed to score, Vieri's shot still made the Valencia players break out in a cold sweat, saying that it was fortunate that Djukic interfered with it for a while, otherwise, the consequences would be really unimaginable. After all, the opponent scored a goal after just over ten minutes of the game, which will definitely be a big blow to Valencia's morale.
Although the strategy of taking the initiative to attack was unsuccessful and was almost succeeded by the opponent's counter-attack, Valencia did not pick up the defensive counter-attack again because of this. In the next game, they got the ball and attacked the Fiorentina goal again!
Although Cooper is not very good at coaching the team's offense, fortunately, most of the Argentine's players have their own offensive talent, and they don't need him to do anything to play a rather gorgeous combination on the offensive end!
This can also be regarded as Cooper's luck, with players such as Gerard and Mendieta, who were born in the attacking country of Spain. Otherwise, even if he wants the team to take the initiative in the game, it may not be an easy task.
In the face of Valencia's attack, the Fiorentina players were not to be outdone, and every time they successfully intercepted the opponent's attack, the purple lily would launch a quick counterattack under the organization of Redondo and Effenberg in response, threatening the opponent's goal while effectively relieving the defensive pressure of their own backline.
In this way, the two teams that had just come out of the defensive battle began to fight a contradictory battle again!